Eisenberg, Shimon Zev. Milchamah Shtoib, Zichronoth fun a Litvishe Palit (1915-1917). [”The Dust of War: Memoirs of a Jewish-Lithuanian Refugee.”]

(WORLD WAR I).

Romm)

Klerksdorp, South Africa (i.e. Vilna

1935

An interesting memoir. Reportedly, most of copies of this book were destroyed in a fire in Johannesburg, South Africa. The author relates (pp. 208-10) that he met the Chofetz Chaim and R. Naphtali Trop in exile in Shumiatz, Belarus. When word came that military police were rounding up Jewish refugees and were coming close to the yeshiva, the Chofetz Chaim proclaimed that all gathered should recite Tehilim. Subsequently, when the soldiers arrived they saw the tears of the Chofetz Chaim and his yeshiva students and promptly left.